Contents:
July / August 2001
From the editor's desk
PRINCIPALITIES AND POWER
4 The Geography, History, and Future of World Power
by Zia Mian
With politics now formed by struggles to control the world's
resources, seeking a global commonwealth based on justice
6 Readings in Nature, Ecology, and Politics
by Betty Zisk
Course list for first-year college students: classics and calls
for action
6 Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing
reviewed by Betty Zisk
7 Karel Capek, The War with the Newts
reviewed by Ethan Mitchell
PEACEMAKING IN THE MIDST OF WAR
8 Journalists and the Bomb
by Leo Maley and Uday Mohan
Rethinking uncritical acceptance of conventional wisdom
9 The Innocence of Pearl Harbor
by John Dower
A powerful film waits to be made. But who would dare to make
it? Who would go to see it?
10 Let's Look Right, Too!
by Murray Polner
Seeking partners in unaccustomed places
12 Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful:
A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
reviewed by Coleman McCarthy
13 Disciples and Dissidents: The Prison Writings of the
Prince of Peace Plowshares
reviewed by Jane Cadarette
14 Elise Boulding, Cultures of Peace
reviewed by Betty Burkes
15 Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam is Dead
reviewed by Eoin Gaj
15 Aleksander Topolski, Without Vodka
reviewed by Patricia Wild
16 Poetry of Stanley Kunitz and Karl Shapiro
reviewed by Michael True
STANDING UP WITHOUT KILLING IN A RACIST WORLD
18 It's Not Just About Huck Finn
by Joan E. Bertin
A look at the "racially offensive" book list
18 Serendipitous Discoveries
by Loretta Williams
Learning from communities of identity as we wrestle with becoming
a pluralist democracy
19 "To You"
poem by Langston Hughes
19 Myers Outstanding Book Award 2000 Winners
from the Gustavus Myers Center
Honoring books that advance understanding of bigotry and power
imbalance in North America
20 Reading "The Boondocks"
by Oliver Wang
Confronting and toppling sacred cows of American liberalism
and conservatism--on the comics page
22 Mel Rosenthal, In the South Bronx of America
from Curbstone Press
Recording persistent glimmers of the human spirit amid the
rubble of injustice
23 Stephanie Guilloud, Through the Eyes of the Judged: Autobiographical
Sketches by Incarcerated Young Men
reviewed by Mary Biggins
23 Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, Right-Wing Populism
in America: Too Close for Comfort
reviewed by Jean Hardisty
24 Finding Keepers in the Children's Library: Reading
Ann Cameron's Stories
by Lani Gerson
25 Walter Mosley, Walkin' the Dog
reviewed by Michael True
MAPS OF A MIDDLE-EARTH
26 Carol Bly, My Lord Bag of Rice
reviewed by David Thoreen
27 Nell Casey, Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
reviewed by Fred Marchant
BRIEFLY NOTED
Resources on US Arms Sales, p. 7
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemorations, p. 8
AFSC's Youth & Militarism On-line Magazine, p. 11
Notes from the AFSC Film Library, p. 28
Recent Recordings at Radio Free Maine, p. 29
New from Progressive Presses, p. 29
Reject the Rebate, p.30
Aid to Peru & Palestine through AFSC, p.31
30 PIECES: Campaigns, Events, Opportunities, Gatherings, Resources
32 Grace Paley, I Gave Away That Kid
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